Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown (CVE-2026-76098) | HOL Guard CVE

Unknown severity · Source severity not reportedCVE-2026-76098

Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown

Answer in brief

CVE-2026-76098 records a Unknown severity vulnerability in Mistune has Denial of Service — RecursionError via Excessive Emphasis Markers in Markdown. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps lepture/mistune (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Analysis pending evidence review

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Published Aug 24, 2026Updated Aug 24, 2026Source checked Aug 24, 2026First seen by HOL Aug 24, 2026Material review Aug 24, 2026

Upstream Advisory

Key facts

Risk: Unknown severitySource severity not reported
Exploitation: Not marked as known exploited
Affected software: 1 mapped package or product
Fix availability: Not reported

Why this deserves its current priority

A CVSS score is not reported in the current record. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.

Analysis status

Analysis pending evidence review

Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.

Affected scope and exposure questions

The current feed maps lepture/mistune (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.

Mapped affected packages and fixed versions
Package	Affected range	Fixed version
lepture/mistunegeneric	>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.3	Not reported

Recommended response

Check inventory. Check lockfiles and deployed manifests for lepture/mistune.
Review the reported fix. Monitor this advisory for an available fix and review any installs of the affected package.

Evidence timeline and material changes

Published upstream
Aug 24, 2026
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Source modified
Aug 24, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:record
First seen by HOL
Aug 24, 2026

Sources and claim methodology

Upstream source description

Mistune is a Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins. Versions 3.3.0 through 3.3.2 are vulnerable to DoS through deeply nested tokens. HTML rendering creates deeply nested emphasis tokens from consecutive asterisk characters, and recursive rendering in HTMLRenderer.render_token() can exceed Python's recursion limit and raise RecursionError, allowing crafted Markdown to crash a parsing process. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.3

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